Jim's account of hardy zantedeschias in western Virginia reminds me that two
years ago, a friend sent me tubers of a large-growing red-orange zantedeschia
with nicely spotted leaves. I grew them for a season in a container, decided
they were too much trouble (needed water constantly, blew over in the wind), and
tossed them in the last compost heap down the hill (the heap of no return).
This year he wrote and asked how the callas had done in my garden. Whoops. I
hadn't realized he considered them hardy.

But later in the season, when I'd forgotten all about them, I chanced to look
in the lower compost area, and there they were: a huge clump, in full and
glorious bloom. So now they've been moved back into the garden, in several
places, and one potful set aside in a greenhouse, just in case.

Ellen

Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
http://www.senecahillperennials.com/
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